Bernard Declève

Bernard Declève is an engineer-architect, urban planner and full professor at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL). He directs the UCL School of Urban Planning, located in the Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering, Urban Planning (LOCI-UCL) and is responsible for the UCL Master's degree specializing in urban planning and territorial development. In this context, he coordinates in particular the international team responsible for the course 'Mobility and urban planning'. He is or has been a visiting professor at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico (1991-2000), at the University of Lille 1 / European Studies Program (since 2012), at the Louvain School of Management / Executive Master in Real Estate (2010 and 2011), at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Paysage de Versailles (ENSPV) (2007-2010), at the School of Architecture of the City and Territories of Marne-la-Vallée, France (2006-2008), at the Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba, Bolivia (2003-2006) and at the Sapienza Università di Roma (since 2006). His personal work and the research he directs focus on the evolution of living conditions in metropolises and on the urban and territorial project as a spatial concept and field of public action. He has extensive international experience, with expertise mainly in the field of support for public project management of urban projects and the facilitation of citizen participation initiatives. His professional career includes stops in Algiers, Algeria (UNESCO, 1979-1984), Dalifor, Senegal (GTZ, 1990-1992), Fortaleza, Brazil (CE, DG VIII, 1992-1994), Guadalajara, Mexico (SEDEUR, ITESO, 1992-1996), France (in the context of multiple projects related to urban policy, 1990-2004), Chile (Inter-American Development Bank, 1996-1997), Madagascar (Fondation de France, 2000-2003). He also has experience in the animation of networks such as Citiz@Move within the framework of the European URBACT programme (2003-2007). He is currently the scientific director of the Metrolab BrabantSZenne, a network research project that studies the conditions for the creation of a metropolitan infrastructure for soft mobility and water and landscape management in the Senne Valley, the cradle of Brussels.